If you liked “Gone Girl” By Gillian Flynn

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“Casebook” by Mona Simpson (April 15) A teenage boy must reckon with evil when he goes to maniacal lengths to spy on his separating parents.

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“The Painter” by Peter Heller (May 6) An expressionist painter with a murderous past tries and fails to conquer his violent impulses.

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“Summer House with Swimming Pool” by Herman Koch (June 3) The Dutch writer is bound to satisfy fans of “The Dinner” with a new psychological thriller about nasty people on an opulent vacation.

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“The Exception” by Christian Jungersen (2006) Four female nonprofit apparatchiks in Copenhagen turn against one another when they start receiving death threats.

If you liked “Running With Scissors” By Augusten Burroughs

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“What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding” by Kristin Newman (May 20) A sitcom writer dallies with a plethora of sexy foreign men.

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“Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America” by John Waters (June 3) The “Hairspray” director with the pencil-thin moustache set off on a grand tour of the country in other people’s cars and wrote a book about what did and didn’t happen.

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“Perfectly Miserable: Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town” by Sarah Payne Stuart (June 12) A writer chronicles her lifelong enchantment with the writers of Concord and the perils of living in a house she can’t afford.

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“Let the Tornado Come” by Rita Zoey Chin (June 24) A poet with a terrible childhood finds solace in a horse.

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“I Don’t Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Sensitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I’ve Dated” by Julie Klausner (2010) A comic offers a self-deprecating take on a number of failed romances.

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If you liked “Mystic River” by Dennis Lehane

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“Remember Me Like This” by Bret Anthony Johnston (May 13) A young boy in a small Texas town disappears mysteriously and returns more mysteriously to a family torn asunder.

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“The Orphans of Race Point” by Patry Francis (May 6) Two murders alter the lives of a couple living in Provincetown’s tight-knit Portugese-American community.

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“The Arsonist” by Sue Miller (June 24) A trusting community in
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“Everything I Never Told You” by Celeste Ng (June 26)

A Chinese-American family living in a small Ohio town is devastated when the favored middle daughter drowns.

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“Gob’s Grief” by Chris Adrian (2003) An 11-year-old in rural Ohio loses his twin brother in the Civil War, then goes to fantastic lengths to try to bring him back from the dead.

If you liked “The Corrections” by Jonathan Franzen

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“To Rise Again at a Decent Hour” by Joshua Ferris (May 13) A self-defeating dentist has an identity crisis when he discovers he is being impersonated online.

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“The Vacationers” by Emma Straub (May 29) A dysfunctional family takes a holiday in Mallorca, ripping open old wounds.

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“Friendship” by Emily Gould (July 1) Two clever urbanites face 30 and the possibility that their long friendship is coming to a close.